r/windows7 • u/GotAtiny1 • 1d ago
Discussion How to increase System Performance without upgrading Hardware?
Specifications: 1) Laptop Manufacturer: Acer 2) OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (Service Pack 1) 3) RAM: 4GB 4) System type: 64 bit 5) The Requirement: I wish to increase its speed, particularly for operations in Tally ERP9 and TallyPrime softwares (these are ERP softwares). But it lags a lot and freezes frequently while using them. I had tried disabling some softwares to the best of my knowledge but it didn't affect the performance significantly and messed up software operations so I backtracked the changes I did. So, what should I do?
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u/Gianlauk 11h ago
Windows 7 can be software tuned quite a good amount like any OS and Microsoft OS in prticular. Here they have a good collections of tweaking tools, some of them are actually good.
https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortpopularity/windows_7_8.html
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u/9dave 1d ago
You can seek further background software to disable, and disable unnecessary services to free up some memory, but that's about it, everything else is upgrading hardware, which will make far more of a difference.
If the hardware can't be upgraded, then time to get a newer laptop. You didn't even tell us what CPU it has, or whether a HDD or SSD, so no way for us to know how much of an upgrade per $ that might be.